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Cultural capital as a predictor of school success: evidence and gender differences in Chinese middle schools

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Cultural capital is vital for equitable educational development. This paper studies the effect of family cultural capital on the performance of middle school students with regard to gender, using a multiple linear regression model. Participants from four
Hui Jin, Shi Jiao, Xu Ma, Yunan Xia
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Developing complex analysis textbook to enhance students’ critical thinking

Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2020
Critical thinking skill was needed since problems in daily life required a solution. To solve the problems, the students collect the data as a consideration in making the right decision. Moreover, the students also need good critical thinking skills.
Fariz Setyawan, Puguh Wahyu Prasetyo, Burhanudin Arif Nurnugroho   +2 more
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher, Julian Laurens, Alinka Fisher, Sabrina Forte, Katrina Reschke, Rosemary Kayess   +6 more
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Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves - facts, fallacies and frequently asked questions [PDF]

, 2004
Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs) have been widely adopted as a method to quantify and graphically represent uncertainty in economic evaluation studies of health-care technologies.
Briggs, A., Fenwick, E., O'Brien, B.J.
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Australian Practitioners' Beliefs, Confidence, and Training Needs for Delivering Behaviour Support to Children and Young People in Out‐of‐Home Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) frequently present with complex behavioural needs. In New South Wales (NSW), behaviour support plans (BSPs) are mandated when restrictive practices, including psychotropic medication, are used. Little research has examined whether the statutory workforce is adequately prepared to meet behaviour support ...
Manisha Abayakoon Stanborough, Kelly‐Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Mikaela Stanborough, Erin Leif   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piracy of Digital Products: A Contest Theoretical Approach [PDF]

, 2007
In the following, we examine a market of a digital consumption good with monopolistic supply. In this market, it is the ability of the consumer to bypass (”crack”) the copy-protection of the monopolist which induces a lower price of the digital good ...
Hoffmann, Magnus, Schmidt, Frederik
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Student Perceptions of College Faculty Who Use OER

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Research indicates that students find open educational resources (OER) favorable, but there is no research regarding students’ perceptions of faculty who use open textbooks.
Gabrielle Vojtech, Judy Grissett
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Helicopter parenting and college student depression: the mediating effect of physical self-esteem

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundDepression is one of the most common and prevalent mental disorders, and college students are a high-risk group for depression. Helicopter parenting plays an important role in depression, but the mechanism is still ambiguous.
Chaolian Wang, Heng Shi, Geng Li
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A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ESP TEXTBOOK FOR BANKING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DEPARTEMENT ”ENGLISH FOR BANKING” PUBLISHED BY LANGUAGE CENTER UMM PRESS BASED ON THE STUDENTS’ NEEDS [PDF]

, 2008
This study was focused on the analysis of “English for Banking 2” textbook published by language center UMM press based on the students’ needs. This research wanted to know the students’ needs of learning “English for Banking” and the relevance of the ...
Hasanah, Uswatun
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The Role of Intraparticle Diffusion in Kinetic Model Discrimination: Proof of Concept Testing for Methanol Dehydration

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rate of a heterogeneous catalytic process may simultaneously be described by several rate equations. In this case, discrimination between the plausible kinetic models is required. An intrinsic kinetic model of a heterogeneous catalytic process may successively be discriminated by the transition from a reaction rate‐limited regime to an ...
Oleksii Zhokh, Andrii Trypolskyi, Peter Strizhak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source